Granger, N. [i.e. Tourtechot] (d.1734).

Estimate

300 - 400 GBP

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Description

Relation du voyage fait en Egypte par le sieur Granger, en l'année 1730. Où l'on voit ce qu'il ya de plus remarquable, particulièrement sur l'histoire naturelle. Paris: J. Vincent, 1745

12mo (170 x 95mm.), [4 (including half-title)], ix, [9], 262pp., binding: contemporary English calf, gilt spine

Literature

Atabey 513; Weber II, 503; Hilmy II, p.292; not in Blackmer

Catalogue Note

first edition, published posthumously. Granger was a doctor from Dijon who had changed his name from Tourtechot and who travelled in Egypt and Syria in the 1730s. He was a friend of Pignon, French consul in Cairo and his major interest was in natural history.